the previous answer is a good one but I know how well talking to someone helps put things in perspective. I'm willing to help for free if you're interested
2007-03-31 17:29:55
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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Look at yourself in the mirror and slap yourself wait bout 2 seconds and your life couch will appear. Absolutely free till the end of your life.
2007-03-31 18:09:39
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answered by sheadrew 3
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Do you think it is prudent asking such things from total strangers on the internet?
2007-03-31 17:29:55
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answered by wefmeister 7
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Here you go. Write down your goals. Figure out how to achieve them. Go about achieving them.
I just saved you a few thousand bucks.
2007-03-31 17:27:56
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answer #4
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answered by eri 7
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ID help
2007-03-31 17:33:05
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answered by Star_Night 5
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I would be happy to help you in any way I can.
2007-03-31 17:29:48
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answered by Sparkle1 6
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I have this book called Why wasn't I told written by Lisa Jane McInnis. This book was a best seller and it was printed 1986 . I am sure you could get others about goal setting in the self help section.
Whenever you achieve something worthwhile you have probably either consciously or sub consciously realised a goal. Goals are useful as they keep you focused on your specific purpose. They can act as reminders, incentives or as steps that can assist you in doing the things you want to do.
The Purpose?
Goal setting is used widely; it is used by top-level athletes, business-people and high achievers in all fields. Goal setting can also be a more formal process for career and personal planning. The process of setting goals and targets for your career allows you to:
•Stay focused on your objective
•Decide what is important for you to achieve in your life and to start, step-by-step, achieving these goals.
•Be in control of where you go in life. By reflecting on and then recording exactly what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on to do it.
•Separate what is important from what is irrelevant. Goal setting helps you work out what not to concentrate on, what decisions to choose in relation to your goals and it keeps you focused away from distractions.
•Motivate yourself to achievement. It gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organise your resources.
•Track and record your progress and achievements.
•Increase your self-confidence as you develop your level of competence in achieving your goals. This is very important, as self-confidence is critically important during the job searching process and many organisations place a high value on this quality.
How to Begin Setting Goals
You can create goals on several levels. You can create larger scale, overarching goals related to your personal and career wants and needs. You can then create sub-goals and tasks under different areas of the larger goals. You can also create short, medium and long term goals. Once you have stated and recorded your goals, you can break them down into the smaller targets and tasks that will take you towards your long term goals. Once you have a plan, you start working towards achieving it.
Goals should have the following qualities:
1.Specific and Measurable: Set a precise goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement. What exactly will you be doing when you achieve your goal? When specifically will you do it? Who else, in particular will be there? If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal and can take complete satisfaction from having achieved it.
2.Observable: defined as an action. You should be able to 'take a picture of yourself' doing it and set definable limits so that you know when and whether you have completed the goal or not.
3.Small Steps: A goal can be broken down into small observable steps. Each step should be observable and specific. A series of mini-goals to attempt one-by-one. This helps to clarify the reality you face. (A question you could ask yourself is "what is the smallest goal I can set that would give me some sense of progress and accomplishment?").
4.Important and beneficial to you personally.
5.Focus on the presence rather than the absence of something.
6.A beginning rather than an end.
7.Realistic and Achievable within the context of your life: Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward. Derive today's goals from larger ones.
8.Include time lines and target dates. Time lines can provide motivation for you to continue working until the problem is solved. They also place limits on how long you are willing to wait for an active response to your efforts.
9.Prioritised: When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.
10.A challenge: they may be hard work, but are personally worth achieving. Just as it is important not to set goals unrealistically high, do not set them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid of failure or where they are lazy! You should set goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate grasp, but not so far that there is no hope of achieving them.
1: Identify the purpose for your life
2: Decide what you want to achieve in your life and write it down as if it is already happening
3: List the benifits of achieving each goal
4: Place an achievement time on your goal
5: Write out a detailed list of all the things you need to do to achieve each goal
6: Write down the obstacles you know you will have to over come
7: Remove the negative influences from your life
8: Imagine yourself achieving your goal - visualising to your success is one of the 7 steps of successful people
9: List the people whose help you will need
10: Define the knowledge you will need to succeed
11: Act now
12: Discipline yourself
13: Read your goals often
14: Keep adding new goals
I have action plans and sheets from books if you want to contact me - regards
2007-03-31 17:53:02
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answered by Anonymous
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Okay
2007-03-31 17:29:48
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answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6
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depends, are you hot?
2007-03-31 17:26:16
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answered by Anonymous
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